Expanso Capital

Expanso is a Seattle-based enterprise software startup that provides distributed data processing solutions, enabling companies to process large-scale datasets directly at the edge rather than centralizing them in the cloud. The core platform is built on the open-source software Bacalhau, which is specifically designed to reduce infrastructure costs and improve the overall efficiency of managing decentralized enterprise data. In November 2023, the company raised $7.5 million in seed funding through a financing round led by General Catalyst and Hetz Ventures, with additional participation from Array Ventures and Protocol Labs. Operating with an initial team of 10 employees, the firm targets large enterprise customers and has already deployed its platform across multiple sectors, including major global defense organizations. Expanso was founded in 2023 by former Google, Microsoft, and Amazon executives David Aronchick and Walid Baruni.